I've found videos of a camp that brought a steel track ride with a U-shaped track and an enclosed car that flipped over. I can't find any info about anyone bringing something more traditionally roller-coaster-y, with a track that goes from point A to point B (or in a circle) with hills and curves and such. Has this been done before?

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If it hasn't been done before, I'm more motivated to do it. That's a personal quirk; I like working on novel projects.

If it has been done before, then I'm less worried about people complaining about the idea. This forum has taught me that a lot of people take strong exception to some sorts of projects that might be dangerous, so sticking to ideas that have already been done helps me ignore those people.

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I'm giving this a nudge to the Building Art Installations section, since that's a better fit for discussions about building art installations/attractions.

There have been a few different track-related builds (and at least a couple that had a course that went full circle), but the U-shaped thing you're describing sounds like the old Roaster Coaster (it was painted black, by mid-day that thing was insufferable). It came from someplace in the midwest, if I remember correctly.

But +100 to what gaminwench said. It really doesn't matter whether something has been done before - each project winds up having its own unique vision, and even if you were making the exact same thing it would likely come out plenty different than what used to come to the playa 10 years ago. Even if they were planning a sudden and triumphant return to the playa, it's a big enough city for multiple coaster projects to be hugely successful and popular. Good luck!

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Oh yeah that's right... Flight to Mars WAS a coaster in Seattle but the guys who did Flight To Mars camp at Burning Man weren't the ones who brought the coaster... If I remember right...But goddamm everything has been done on the playa at some point. No matter how original you think an idea is, if you search enough, you'll find out someone did it.

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I stood by the Speedcult roller coaster. It made a lot of noise as if it was shaking apart. I did not ride.

Many amusement rides that could be transported to BM are designed to be nomadic. They are shuttled from fair and festival to another and reassembled. They sit on boards and cement blocks to level and support. A larger, fixed installation can have a proper foundation.

They are supposed to be engineered to ensure that (with a safety margin) everything stays attached, nothing bends and nothing breaks or becomes undone. But the temporary foundation is never engineered. The operators cannot be altered. Personally I would not trust my life on the playa to a kinetic amusement ride that required engineering or good maintenance to operate.

If I were the BM department of mutated amusement rides, I would inspect them more thoroughly than the BM department of hope tall structures don't blow over and BM department fire effects, fuel storage and keeping BRC from burning to the ground do for their respective areas.

some seeing eye wrote:I stood by the Speedcult roller coaster. It made a lot of noise as if it was shaking apart. I did not ride.

Many amusement rides that could be transported to BM are designed to be nomadic. They are shuttled from fair and festival to another and reassembled. They sit on boards and cement blocks to level and support. A larger, fixed installation can have a proper foundation.

They are supposed to be engineered to ensure that (with a safety margin) everything stays attached, nothing bends and nothing breaks or becomes undone. But the temporary foundation is never engineered. The operators cannot be altered. Personally I would not trust my life on the playa to a kinetic amusement ride that required engineering or good maintenance to operate.

If I were the BM department of mutated amusement rides, I would inspect them more thoroughly than the BM department of hope tall structures don't blow over and BM department fire effects, fuel storage and keeping BRC from burning to the ground do for their respective areas.

some seeing eye wrote:For the record, we take our structures seriously at Sextant.

I personally admire greatly and laud Sextant work, experimental values, participation in ePlaya, and engineering work, as a model for burners. And I am not qualified in any way to engineer your adventures!

And long time, I have been fascinated by non-spherical geodesic engineering.

Maybe there is some kind of TED-PlayaTalk, participation in online forums, Spark, or Artery-connected mailing lists for responsible engineering of BRC projects?